Evaluation of a Patient-centered Communication Skills Training for Nursing Professionals in Germany: A Randomized Controlled Trail
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 进行中（未招募）
- 入组人数
- 207
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Self-efficacy regarding communication with patients
研究概览
简要总结
The KOMPAT study aims to evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of a needs-based communication skills training for nursing professionals in Germany and to derive recommendations for future long-term implementation. Therefore, a training program to foster communication skills of nursing professionals has been developed based on a previously conducted needs assessment and literature research. To evaluate the training a randomized controlled trail with a waitlist-control group will be conducted. It is aimed to include 180 nurses within the study, of which 90 nurse will be randomized in a stratified manner to the intervention group and 90 nurses will be randomized to the waitlist-control group. Outcomes will be assessed at baseline, post -training and 4-weeks follow-up. It is hypothesized that self-efficacy in communication with patients and further outcomes will be significantly higher among participants in the intervention group compared to participants of the waitlist-control group during post-training assessment and follow-up. The evaluation will be accompanied by a process evaluation. The training will be facilitated by a member of the research team and a nursing professional by applying the train-the-trainer approach. The KOMPAT study will be conducted at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Nurses working at the participating departments of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
- •Main part of daily work includes communication with patients
- •Age ≥ 18 years
- •Completed educational program as a nurse
- •German-speaking
排除标准
- •Little or no contact with patients in daily work, e.g. an operating room nurse or within the bed management
研究组 & 干预措施
Communication skills training
The intervention is a one-day face-to-face training to foster patient-centered communication skills of nursing professionals at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany. The training is developed based on results of a previously conducted needs assessment with nurses, medical assistants and nursing service managers as well as literature research and will be rolled out after baseline assessment and randomization.
干预措施: Communication skills training for nurses (Behavioral)
Waitlist-control group
Participants of the waitlist-control group receive no specific study related intervention. Participants of this group will be offered a communication skills training after complete data collection of all participants of the RCT has been finished.
结局指标
主要结局
Self-efficacy regarding communication with patients
时间窗: Change from baseline (t0) at immediately after the training (t1) (with t1 being the primary endpoint) and at four weeks after the training (t2) for the intervention and waitlist-control group.
Description: Self-efficacy of nurses in the context of communication with their patients will be measured by the German version of the 12-item Self-Efficacy Scale (SE-12-G). Items on this one-dimensional scale can be answered on a scale from 1 ("very uncertain") to 10 ("very certain") with an additional option to rate items as "not relevant".
次要结局
- Objective knowledge about patient-centered communication(Change from baseline (t0) at immediately after the training (t1) and at four weeks after the training (t2) for the intervention and waitlist-control group)
- Attitudes towards medical communication(Change from baseline (t0) at four weeks after the training (t2) for the intervention and waitlist-control group)
- Subjective knowledge about patient-centered communication(Change from baseline (t0) at immediately after the training (t1) and at four weeks after the training (t2) for the intervention and waitlist-control group)
- Depression and anxiety(Change from baseline (t0) at immediately after the training (t1) and at four weeks after the training (t2) for the intervention and waitlist-control group)
- Rating of the training(immediately after the training (t1) for the intervention group)
- Communication skills of nurses from simulation patients' perspective after participation in a SPA(four weeks after the training (t2) for the intervention and waitlist-control group)
- Experienced patient-centeredness (Covariate)(Change from baseline (t0) at four weeks after the training (t2) for the intervention and waitlist-control group)
- Impact of contamination (Covariate)(for the intervention group at baseline (t0) only; for the waitlist-control group at baseline (t0), immediately after the training (t1) and four weeks after the training (t2))
- Communication skills of nurses from external observers' perspective after participation in a SPA(four weeks after the training (t2) for the intervention and waitlist-control group)
- Self-assessed communication skills from participants' perspective after participation in a SPA(four weeks after the training (t2) for the intervention and waitlist-control group)
- Professional fulfillment(Change from baseline (t0) at immediately after the training (t1) and at four weeks after the training (t2) for the intervention and waitlist-control group)
- Subjective working capacities(Change from baseline (t0) at immediately after the training (t1) and at four weeks after the training (t2) for the intervention and waitlist-control group)
研究者
Isabelle Scholl
Prof.Dr.
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf